Meet Our Team

Mary Ann is an executive coach, trainer and advisor backed by more than 36 years of executive leadership, international business development, operations, customer excellence, product management, team management and sales leadership. She began her career in the high tech industry as an Account Manager and was rapidly promoted to Executive Briefer with the AT&T Global Briefing Program. In 1991 she was promoted to General Manager with AT&T Computer Systems managing a multi-state sales region. In 1999, Mary Ann was promoted again to Vice President/General Manager for an AT&T/Avaya business partner – Expanets – where she built a $100M business spanning 8 states. Upon the merger of Expanets to Avaya, Mary Ann led the sales transition and then became the Vice President for Services at Avaya.

In 2015, Mary Ann opened her own company – Peak to Peak Business Strategies – providing executive & business coaching and business consulting. She enjoys speaking, teaching, coaching and consulting for clients on a global basis. In 2020, Mary Ann joined Spark Growth Strategies as Growth Coach providing small and medium size businesses with branding and digital marketing services. Through Spark and Peak to Peak, she provides a wider portfolio of coaching and consulting services to current and potential clients.

Mary Ann graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Management from the University of Northern Colorado. She also attended The Executive Marketing Program at Columbia through her work at AT&T and Lucent Technologies. She is trained in Change Management and LEAN through her work in Lucent and Avaya.

As a healthcare executive for over 30 years, Morre’s personal mission is to make a positive difference in people’s lives every day. His leadership experience includes Executive Advisor roles in innovative care delivery, health system leadership roles, and CEO roles at four hospitals.

Morre currently works as an Executive Advisor to Scripps Health and other major healthcare organizations on transforming care delivery utilizing digital and virtual care models. Previously, he served Adventist Health as the President of Adventist Health Hospital @Home. This team, across seven geographies in two states, transformed traditional hospital care by admitting over 1,000 acute inpatients in the program.

Morre loves serving on the Doctors Care Board because of the organization’s impact in his community and the significant alignment with his personal values. He resides in Lone Tree, Colorado, and enjoys all the great things about living in his home state.

Dr. Katie Lozano is a career-long advocate for patients in her practice and in medical and radiological organizations at local, state, and national levels. She was recently President of the Colorado Medical Society, and currently serves on the American Medical Association (AMA) Radiology Section Council Executive Committee. She previously chaired the AMA Young Physicians Section and the American College of Radiology (ACR) Resident and Fellow Section, served on the ACR Ethics Committee for over a decade, and received the AMA Foundation’s Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award. She serves on the board of directors of her practice-based groundbreaking charitable organization which has a mission to make diagnostic imaging accessible to patients in unserved and underserved regions throughout the world. As a medical student, Dr. Lozano co-directed and volunteered at a free clinic staffed by medical students. Now, as a radiologist with Virtual Radiologic, a national emergency teleradiology company, she is honored to serve another year as Chair of the Doctors Care Board of Directors.

Kathy Ashenfelter has served on Doctors Care’s Board of Directors for 25 years. Kathy has had a 33 year career with HealthOne/HCA, including 23 years as the Chief Financial Officer of Swedish Medical Center. She currently holds the position of Vice President of Resource Management for HealthOne. Kathy is active in the community and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association of Colorado, the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado, the Dumb Friends League, and the Colorado Humane Society.

Dr. Gary VanderArk was born and raised in western Michigan. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Calvin College and a medical degree from the University of Michigan. Dr. VanderArk spent three years serving his country at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and moved to Denver in 1970 to start the neurosurgery program at Denver Health.

Over the course of thirty years of neurosurgical practice in south Denver, Dr. VanderArk organized the Colorado Neurological Institute, the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved, and Doctors Care. He has received multiple accolades for his work in the medical field, including The Pride in the Profession award from the American Medical Association. Dr. VanderArk now spends his time as a full-time community volunteer. He and his wife, Phyllis, have two children, four grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. He has spent the last twenty years as a volunteer teaching medical students and Bible classes.

Chase Aalborg served as Chief Operating Officer at AdventHealth Littleton. Chase focuses on extending the healing ministry of Christ so that every person can enjoy every moment. Chase had devoted more than a decade to the ministry at AdventHealth, serving in multiple administrative roles between the Denver and Chicago markets.

Chase received his Master of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from Regis University in Denver and a Bachelor of Business Administration with a Concentration in Finance from Walla Walla College in Washington.

Chase and his wife have two young children. They enjoy camping in the mountains with family and friends and experiencing everything Colorado has to offer.

Dr. Ellen Burkett graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in Nursing in 1978. She graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1987 with an M.D. degree. She completed her internship, residency, and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. Dr. Burkett is board certified in Internal Medicine. She has provided the highest quality medical care since 1989. Dr. Burkett is an active member of the American College of Physicians, the Arapahoe-Douglas-Elbert Medical Society, the Colorado Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Her practice has achieved Level III NCQH recognition for Patient Centered Medical Home.

She is the Medical Director for MedSouth IPA and Board Chair of CHN. Dr. Burkett is married with three grown children.

Andrea Chase is an Executive Director with 17 years of experience serving the board of directors at the Arapahoe-Douglas-Elbert Medical Society. Andrea has worked with physicians in the South Metro Denver area since 1995 specializing in physician relations at Anthem and as the Director at MedSouth IPA. Andrea has a passion for customer service in the workplace and uses her positive energy to assist physicians and practices to succeed. Andrea is inspired daily by her husband and their four kids. In her free time, Andrea likes to play pickleball, golf, and any family activities including her French bulldog, Juju.

Dr. Erlandson is an Illinois native who attended Augustana College and completed his medical training at Southern Illinois University. He spent 4 years serving as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force and came to Colorado to complete family medicine residency training at Swedish Medical Center. Dr. Erlandson has been on the faculty at Swedish since 2011 and currently serves as program director.

Seth Gursky, MD, believes in ethical treatment of patients and served as a member of a medical ethics committee at East Jefferson Hospital in Louisiana. Additionally, his beliefs follow giving back in volunteerism, offering his medical services to athletes during the Crescent City Classic 10k race held in New Orleans and to misplaced residents of Hurricane Isaac. Dr. Gursky’s participation in medical missions to Nicaragua involved supervising medical students and providing primary and urgent care to underserved residents.

He graduated from St. Matthew’s University in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, B.W.I and is certified in Family Medicine from the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. Gursky’s residency training was completed at Family Medicine Resident East Jefferson General Hospital at the Tulane School of Medicine in Metairie, LA.

Mary has been a pharmacist for over 50 years, with 40 of those years working for King Soopers pharmacy. Born and raised in Wray, Colorado, she graduated with a bachelor’s in Pharmacy from the University of Colorado. Mary is very active in the pharmaceutical scene, serving as president for the Colorado Pharmacist Society, Secretary-Treasurer, and now president for the Colorado Professional Employees, and served on the board for Peer Assistance Services for over 15 years. Along with her husband, she occasionally works as a pharmacist at her brother’s independently owned pharmacy in Wray, Colorado, Foltmer Drug. Mary has been married to her husband, Jim, for over 50 years and has four children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Beverly Razon is the Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for the COPIC family of companies. She directs the government affairs activities in COPIC’s regional market and oversees COPIC’s public engagement, corporate social responsibility efforts, and the COPIC Medical Foundation. She works to build relationships with business, community, patient advocates and health care organizations to identify opportunities to partner on issues of joint importance. Her efforts have led to successful collaborations on legislative and policy initiatives as well as projects involving the improvement of health care delivery and patient safety.

Beverly moved to Denver from Washington, DC where she worked on Capitol Hill for over seven years. She holds a masters in business administration from Regis University and bachelors of science from Doane College. She is the current Chair of the Healthcare Council and serves on the board of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce and is the past Chair of the Colorado Competitive Council at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. Beverly serves on the boards of the Colorado Perinatal Care and Quality Collaborative and Doctors Care. Beverly is an alumni of the Denver Metro Leadership Foundation’s Impact Denver (’09) and Leadership Denver (’15) programs and was recognized as one of Colorado’s Most Powerful Women in Business by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce in 2021.

Mary White has served on the Board of Directors of Doctors Care since 1996. She has had a long career in Hospital and Healthcare Administration, serving in leadership positions in Denver Hospitals and Systems. Mary has served on multiple not-for-profit boards as well as Civic boards, including South Metro Chamber of Commerce and Mountain States Employers Council. Mary is originally from Pennsylvania and is married with three sons.

Dr. Wood practiced Internal Medicine in Littleton for many years and was the Chief Medical Officer at Littleton Adventist Hospital before retiring. He attended the University of Colorado for his BA and MD. Dr. Wood serves on the board for Doctors Care, Colorado Physician Health Program, and Lumunos. In his retirement, he enjoys riding his bike, spending time with his grandchildren, doing yard work, and taking walks with his wife.